In 2017, NESET II also answered five ad hoc queries from the Commission, namely:

1. ‘Migration and Education in Sweden: Integration of Migrants in the Swedish School Education and Higher Education Systems’ by Nihad Bunar2. ‘Continuity of learning for newly arrived refugee children in Europe’ by Claudia Koehler3. ‘The role of education for social inequality in modern societies (with a special perspective on EU Member State’ by Dovydas Caturianas, Laima Užpelkienė, Valentina Migliarini4. ‘The effectiveness of equity funding in education in Western countries. Literature review’ by Emilie Franck and Ides Nicaise5. ‘The current state of national ECEC quality frameworks, or equivalent strategic policy documents, governing ECEC quality in EU Member States’ by Arianna Lazzari

The highlight of the year has been the annual conference titled ‘Empowering Schools. Evidence – informed policies for quality education’. It was co-organised by NESET II, EENEE and the Commission, and held on November 23, in Brussels. The conference proceedings are available here.

Work Programme 2018 is currently being finalized and will be published soon.